Malaysian Navy – A Malaysian Navy patrol boat fired on a trawler carrying illegal immigrants. One person was killed.

• BBC: Malaysian navy fires on trawler
  

Southeast Asia – Background – Thailand and Malaysia grow closer together, as evidenced by the resumption of Thai-Malaysian naval exercises this year and the scaling back of US-Thai exercises this year. The result will lead to a shifting of US resources to the Phillipines and Singapore to counterbalance this action.

• Stratfor: Thailand-Malaysia Redrawing Strategic Map of Southeast Asia